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NetSquared Local Events in the First Half of August

Tech Soup

Their “meetings” come in diverse and innovative formats like Philadelphia’s Crowdsourcing Change , Vancouver’s Coffee Klatsch or a Happy Hour in Austin or Minneapolis. Peterborough, Canada: Tech for Social Good. Naples, FL: NFN4Good Tech Club for SWFL. Don’t be afraid! Wednesday, July 31.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Currently she manages corporate venture capital partnerships at Elemental Excelerator, a climate tech growth accelerator based in the Pacific. About the Author.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: April 30

NTEN

Azavea announced the release of the Philadelphia " Online Citizen's Guide " in partnership with the Committee of Seventy. It allows Philadelphia-area residents to enter their address to get information about their local elected officials and their polling location. Thanks to all those who documented and shared! Scariest part?

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Growing the NetSquared Community

Tech Soup

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Keeping Your Website Up-to-Date. Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina: Nonprofit Tech Trends for 2016. Upcoming Events. Tuesday, February 2, 2016.

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Tell Your Community's Story with NetSquared

Tech Soup

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Victoria, Canada: Storie­s from the Rare Sightings of Women in Tech. Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Youth and Social Change.

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An Interview with Jo Lee of CitizenSpeak

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. By day I'm a principal at Green Machine PR , a marketing and public relations firm that specializes in high tech and green tech.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

These “sharing” tech companies are, in the end, profit-seeking endeavors, and as such they reproduce the all-too-familiar negative aspects of capitalism. We are becoming so dependent on Big Tech that we are starting to believe that there are no alternatives to the big monopolistic platforms. 9</sup).

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